Even more than four decades after Alien, the 8th passenger, the franchise remains relevant among fans, and commercial performance is essential to success
With seven films released, two crossovers and now the series Alien: Earththe franchise Alien continues to prove relevant even more than four decades after the launch of Alien – The 8th Passenger in 1979, directed by Ridley Scott (Gladiator).
7. Alien, the eighth passenger (1979): US $ ~ 109 million dollars
When the crew of the Nostromo space probe, led by Lieutenant Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, Avatar), responds to a rescue request from an inhospitable planet, they discover a deadly form of life that reproduces within humans. Now the crew must fight to remain alive and prevent the creature from reaching the earth.
6. Aliens, the rescue (1986): US $ ~ 131 million dollars
Fifty -four years after escaping the “Nostromo”, Lieutenant Ripley is found to float, lost in space, still asleep. Back to our planet, she tells you everything that happened to her, but no one really believes in her, or seems to give her credit, until a human colony, created on the planet where she found the first alien, stops making communications suddenly. She is then summoned to assist a military expedition to the site, being the only apparently aware that the nightmare is far from the end.
5. Alien³ (1992): US $ 160 million dollars
Lieutenant Ripley is in charge of going to a planet that is used as a maximum security colony. This is Alien’s new murder stage, which is killing everything that moves, except Lieutenant Ripley herself, who is apparently not attacked by the monster.
4. Alien: The Resurrection (1997): US $ 161 million dollars
Two hundred years after his suicide, Ripley wakes up. Scientists managed to get the alien queen out of her body and created aliens who escaped, causing terror. They need to be detained.
3. Alien: Covenant (2017): US $ 241 million dollars
Traveling through the galaxy, the crew members of the Covenant colonizing ship find a remote planet with an air of unexplored paradise. Delighted, they believe in luck and ignore the reality of the place: a dark land that holds terrible secrets and has the survivor David as a lone inhabitant.
2. Alien: Romulus (2024): US $ ~ 351 million dollars
While scouring the depths of an abandoned space station, a group of young space colonizers faces the most terrifying form of life in the universe.
1. Prometheus (2012): US $ ~ 403 million dollars
A team of scientists embarks on a space journey to discover the truth about the origin of the human race. On the destination planet, they find powerful creatures and frightening revelations.
And the crossovers with the franchise Predator?
In addition to the main line, the franchise also has two crossovers that unite the Xenomorphs with predators. However, it is worth mentioning that these two films are not considered an official part of the main canon of the Alien franchise. Anyway, the data follows according to the site Box Office Mojo:
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Alien vs. Predator(2004): raised approximately $ 177 million dollars
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Alien vs. PREDATOR 2 (2007):: raised approximately $ 130 million dollars
Also read:What the ‘Alien: Earth’ series shows for the first time in the history of the franchise
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